Super Mario Bros. 3 World Map Made Entirely Out of Yarn

After spending six years of tirelessly crocheting, Nintendo super fan Kjetil Nordin has recreated the "World 1" map of Super Mario Bros. 3, entirely out of yarn.

The project took him a whopping 800 hours and a whole lot of patience. Check out his completed work below.

"The hardest thing has been to accept that it took such a long time," Nordin told NRK. "I've spent 800 hours crocheting and many hours researching and searching for the correct yarn.

"When the water was half way finished I saw that I had chosen the wrong shade of blue. It was almost purple, and very ugly, so I had to undo all of it. That took an extra week."

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